Comment by Elias Alias — April 13, 2010 @ 5:13 pm
With only one exception at this point in the comment chain below this article, I’m impressed to observe that some who have registered here at our website have come in under misconceptions about what Oath Keepers is, and what our mission is.
If one has come here thinking that Oath Keepers was created to walk point in an assault on the criminals in D.C. and on Wall Street, it follows logically that one would post comments classifying Oath Keepers as “cowards” or as “the NRA of the Patriot Movement”. Those among us who would fling such arrows at Oath Keepers are excusable for many reasons, but I’m going to give you one reason why I’m willing to overlook your accusations and condemnations –
You do not know what the Board of Directors at Oath Keepers knows. Our Board consists of career law enforcement and military people. We have sources. We are given information, Intel if you will, which is not found on email chains or in private messages among the membership. One might consider that before one calls this Board and the Oath Keepers organization “cowards”. Calling us that only reveals one’s ignorance and shallowmindedness – and, in some cases, hidden motives.
Any one is free to vent one’s angst if that suits one, but I assure you that Oath Keepers shall remain undeterred in our resolve on this matter. Insults and accusations come from those who have no clue about the details which we considered in arriving at our decision. Remember always – when this event was strictly under the control of Daniel Almond, Oath Keepers was on board. Had Oath Keepers National been invited to manage the event for Daniel Almond, the problems which caused us to cancel would not have occurred. I forgive all of you who would insult me for my vote on this decision. You just don’t know what we know.
I would also like to point out that this decision is not Stewart Rhodes’ decision – it is the decision of the Oath Keepers Board of Directors.
I would like to point you to the picture above in which I’m seen wearing my .357 on my hip while administering an Oath Keepers ceremony on the steps of the Montana state capitol building at Helena, Montana, this past March 27, 2010. I gave that ceremony at an open-carry 2nd Amendment rally at which many wore openly their pistols and carried or slung long barrel guns. I am an honorably-discharged U.S. Marine who fought in Vietnam. I’m on the Board of this nation’s premiere grassroots Constitution-supporting organization and I’m directly in the crosshairs of Federal investigations for standing up and speaking out. I also publish the monthly national “The Oath Keeper” newspaper which is distributed in fifty states. And for all that, I now see that I must also suffer being called “coward” by people here who have no way on earth of receiving the intelligence reports I have. So be it. I’m offering my life for the Oath Keepers mission, fearlessly. I think I know what I’m doing, and what I’m doing is supporting the Oath Keepers mission in the face of intense personal risk.
Some here do not know what is involved, and I’ll tell you this – some of what was involved in the Board’s decision shall never be revealed. That damned government which you want to put back in its box has more tricks up its sleeve than activists in the Patriot movement ever thought of. Leadership carries a solemn gravity which does not always burden the general membership. I know some things relative to this matter which not one damn post-maker on this thread thus far could possibly know, and I’m not talking about the weather.
I’d appreciate a little support. Thank you for reading.
Salute!
Elias
